One of my favorite Windows curmudgeons has to be the one and only Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (who understandably mostly goes by his initials, SJVN). He's been waxing bilious and profane about the ...
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My home office set-up includes a pair of 27" Dell monitors (2707 WFPs) on my primary production desktop. I say this by way of explaining why one of my favorite working techniques is to stay logged ...
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Windows 8 includes a Control Panel widget called "Create a recovery drive," that you can use to create a USB flash drive to boot up and repair your system should anything go wrong with the boot or ...
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There's a terrific piece over on Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows that posted yesterday, entitled "In Praise of the Windows 8 Desktop." In that story, he calls out all the new features on the ...
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I've blogged here repeatedly about the benefits -- and some gotchas -- for the built-in Windows 8 recimg (record image) command. Here's a list of those items for anyone who might be interested in ...
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I've been reading a whole spate of reviews on various Windows 8 tablets lately, including the Dell Latitude 10, the Acer Iconia W510, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2, and so on and so forth (for a ...
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